Guidance

Most of all: know where your desires came from. Your desires have a history. You can’t know what a ‘true’ or ‘authentic’ desire is unless you understand where it came from – and that involves diving deep into your past, understanding how you have evolved as a person, and seeing which desires have been with you for a long time and which ones have co... See more

“Things that keep talented people from fulfilling their potential:

• Trying to please everyone


• Imitating the desires of others


• Chasing status without questioning why


• Playing superhero and trying to do it all alone


• Dividing attention between too many projects

Make it a point of principle to do things, not because the thing is necessarily the perfect action, but because I choose the life where I do things, over the life where I always wait for the perfect opportunity.

Notice the small problems, and fix them. Notice when everyone isn’t enjoying what they’re doing, and be the first person to voice this. Not... See more

Imagine if we could turn off the fear of making something lame. Imagine how much more we'd do.

The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to

switch polarity

entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.